Jun 12 : "Speak My Mind" - Rue Snider (Williamsburg)

New Music / Freshly Written & Recently Released (May 15)

NEWS! RUE SNIDER RELEASES NEW VIDEO ::: ::: Rue Snider just released a new video version of his song "Speak My Mind". The re-release is prompted by the recent events in Alabama.

What happened in Alabama shook the nation, maybe the world. It certainly instigated Rue Snider to re-release his song, "Speak My Mind". I asked Rue about the song's background. I wrote that song the day after the election in 2016 distraught about seeing my hometown in Pennsylvania be the county that swung the state for that climate change denying misogynist. It became my mantra on the tour that year. It's been performed at almost every show since it was written.

Here's the new video, released just a few weeks ago, on May 15 (Link to the original is at the bottom of the page) :::

Here are the lyrics, printed out :::

This isn’t where I thought we would be
Half a decade deep celebrating white supremacy
Fear is an easy sell, like reality TV
Evangelicals chose the candidate of bigotry, the hypocrisy

Privilege is ignition
It burns in the alt-right
These are people who think women should be in kitchens
These are people still against miscegenation who think white men are maligned
And they speak their minds
So I’ll speak mine

When you politicize reproductive rights
You threaten the lives of people that I love
When your immigration line is that it’s deportation time
You threaten to destroy families that I love

Dr. King dreamed about equality this morning I woke up and I felt like that dream died
The successor to my county’s first black president
Is a KKK supported climate change denying misogynist who lies
Seventy two percent of the time
It still makes me cry

What do you say to the kids that wake up today
Who aren’t Christian, white, able-bodied, and straight
It’s hard to teach them to love even in dissent
When ridicule is embraced by the president

So now we’re standing in the present naval gazing at the past
Depending on where you’re standing it might not look that bad,
If that’s the case you’ve been had
We can never go back

This isn’t where I thought we would be
Half a decade deep celebrating white supremacy

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Rue doesn't have any shows coming up in the next few weeks, but here is the click to his Facebook page where you can keep an eye on what he's doing. He hopes to be coming out with a new single on June 21! Rue Snider on Facebook (CLICK HERE). ... And check out the link to the ORIGINAL VIDEO "Speak My Mind" ::: Original video "Speak My Mind".